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Athens is plastered with one message: enoikiazetai. To lethttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/04/athens-to-let-signs-are-everywhere
Shops, offices and factories close as Greek landlords 'refuse to drop commercial rents to prices that people can afford'<p>There's a word that is ubiquitous in the Greek capital: <em>Enoikiazetai</em>. For non-Greek speakers it might not be easy to pronounce but its meaning is bland, almost boring. It translates as "To let".</p><p>In today's Athens, it is as toxic and omnipresent as a plague notice stuck to the door. You will find it on shop fronts, office blocks and factories, where businesses have withered and died. Too many of them, and you know you're in an area where trade cannot prosper.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/04/athens-to-let-signs-are-everywhere">Continue reading...</a>GreeceEuropeCommercial propertyBusinessEconomicsWorld newsThu, 04 Aug 2011 21:00:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/04/athens-to-let-signs-are-everywherePhotograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/GettyTraders in Athens are fighting to survive amid Greece's new poverty. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/GettyPhotograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/GettyTraders in Athens are fighting to survive amid Greece's new poverty. Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/GettyPeter Beaumont in Athens2011-08-04T21:00:06Z